Description

One of the best new things about WCF in .NET 4 is what is what you won't see when you open your web.config file. We made it easier and simpler to get your service up and running. In this episode I'll show you how it works.

The Discussion

okay guys. something is wrong here. I cannot find any simple videos on the entire Internet about using this huge program. a couple of kids are attempting to teach on YouTube but this acronym soup, start in the middle thing seems to be ubiquitous. where can
I find the simple 1-2-3 videos on msdn like you guys have for Visual Studio 2008?

I hope this simplicity is duplicated client side coz I know a lot of people complained in .NET 3/3.5 about the bloat. I also know that apart from setting debug to "true", I only ever interacted with the WCF part in the web config, so this cleans things up
quite nicely.

I'm not saying that is the most interesting feature. But it is a very important one. Most people consistently complained that the config for WCF was too complicated. So in the spirit of "less is more" the team is responding.

WCF4 also includes enhancements such as Routing, Discovery and REST enhancements. We will have more these to come or you can check out my other show
endpoint.tv for more.

For the people who were already working with WCF this feature is like: great for simple things I don't need to specify anything anymore. If we want to do more advanced things, we will still go for a full fledged web.config.

For the people who aren't experienced with WCF this feature is like: wow so that's how easy it is to create a WCF service. But if they need to do more advanced things. Will they not miss the basic concept of ABC and all the more advanced options that you
can set in WCF? They would still need to go on the web and do searches on these things.

So it's a great feature, no doubt about it but I think it will mostly be used to quickly setup a simple WCF service.